It seems sooner or later, they will get rid of all TPM roles as they are planning to do it soon at Instagram: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-layoffs-tpm-roles-instagram-job-cuts Link without paywall: https://archive.is/FBs5Z
Honestly speaking the CEO role is kinda redundant for a public company with shareholders and a board of directors.
Planning to do it soon at Instagram? They’ve already done it
TPMs would be let go in March if they don’t succeed in PM interviews.
TPM is largely unnecessary. I always run the meeting myself, make sure all my xfn partners are doing their parts and escalate when they are blocked/taken into other priority for new commitments. It worked for me at a couple medium/large companies. I ran away when those places added TPM into the mix and kept asking for meetings to go over communication snd project planning because they want to get the specifics and languages right on paper
Sounds like you have competent coworkers . My last org didn’t believe they needed any sort of PM roles , tools, processes etc and everytime we had a project that required resources from multiple teams it always fell on its face.
It’s not competency - I think we just operated more lean and we were on growth product that just didn’t have time for anyone slowing down. But also because I am pretty aggressive on running my projects I was leading. I usually worked from 9:30am until 6pm at home and I would not work afterward unless oncall/p0. I admit i was lucky to work on those products
This is excellent news. I hope other companies follow their example. TPMs are a zero interest rate phenomenon.
I can see this working in a company where the product managers are not directly customer facing. Where I work, product managers spend half their week interfacing directly with customers, often onsite, and the rest of the week roadmapping features with execs and tech leads. They have no time or interest to take on program management work and the engineering leads don't want it either. They typically don't give a shit about anything happening in another team, and frequently rely on other teams holding them up, so they can use that as the reason they'll miss delivery dates.
Sounds like your engineering leads need to take more accountability for the work that their teams are doing.
It's a complaint for sure.
Probably McKinsey consultants told them it would work to cut the middle layer and share responsibilities between PMs and SWE.
No idea why this role even exists. From the job description I google'd up, in all my companies, the TPM role is essentially split between regular PMs, technical leads, and first line engineering managers. Sounds just like bloat to me.
Why do you need TPM. 📄 pushing
Next up will be the PM role. It's hunger games. Here is my story - https://www.teamblind.com/post/Update-2500-Job-apps-46-interviews-1-offer-hm028GVg
What’s the rationale?
Operational efficiency and stock price. Instagram TPMs were told last week they would need to reapply and reinterview for available PM roles or else they would be let go in March. Link without paywall: https://archive.is/FBs5Z
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